· Private foundation
Wendell Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $415k
- $250k+1 grant · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $260,000 |
| GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY | $185,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $78,500 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $51,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| SEASON OF SHARING FUND | $50,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| HARVARD BUISNESS SCHOOL MBA CLASS OF 1976 INC | $25,000 |
| THE EXPLORATORIUM | $25,000 |
| THE LITTLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | $10,000 |
| PARENTS ASSOCIATION OF KIDS INTO SPEAKING SPANISH | $10,000 |
| PRINCETON IN AFRICA | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
114 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 77 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Trustees of Princeton University9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +5%- CSCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $345k · revenue +96%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- FIFISHERS ISLAND CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -48%
- U1UCC 1886 FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $35k
- CDCHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -5%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
How this is measured
173 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 173 of the 302 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE EXPLORATORIUM ↗
- Who funds COTTAGE 1886 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAMLIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOT SOCCER INC ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds PALO ALTO PLAYERS PENINSULA CENTER STAGE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Education Fund ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT COMMUNICATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Princeton-Blairstown Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ISLES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Edwell Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON IN AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation Rockefeller Trust Company · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · McNabb Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Bothin Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wendell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wendell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
- Reclaim Childhood Inc: 24% of income from government
- Isles Inc: 21% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Manomet Inc: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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